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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Henry David Thoreau: A Life in Method
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) stands at the source of several traditions that later separated into distinct fields. He wrote prose that helped fix an American literary style. He reasoned about conscience in ways that shaped modern theories of civil resistance. … Continue reading
Toni Morrison: The Architect of an American Literature
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) worked as a novelist, an editor, a critic, a teacher, and a public intellectual, and across those roles she changed both the content of American literature and the assumptions through which scholars and readers had long interpreted … Continue reading
The Excluded Standpoint: The Work of Malcolm Bull
Malcolm Bull (b. 1960) holds the post of Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, where he teaches the history and theory of visual culture since 1900. He is a … Continue reading
Richmal Crompton and the Author She Meant to Be
Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) holds an unusual place in English letters. She wrote for nearly half a century, sold millions of copies, and created a fictional child who entered the national imagination. Readers know her as the author of the Just … Continue reading
Henty’s Classroom: Adventure Fiction and the Reproduction of Victorian Britain
George Alfred Henty holds a peculiar place in the cultural history of Victorian Britain. Memory reduces him to a writer of boys’ adventure stories. The reduction misses most of what he was. Henty stood at the crossing point of journalism, … Continue reading
John Gottman and the Science of Marriage
John Gottman (b. 1942) holds a singular place in the history of modern psychology. Across more than five decades he helped turn the study of marriage and intimate relationships from a descriptive and therapeutic pursuit into a quantitative science built … Continue reading
David Schnarch and the Problem of the Self in Marriage
David Schnarch (1946-2020) was an American clinical psychologist and sex therapist who built a comprehensive theory of marriage, sexuality, and adult development around a single problem: how a man holds onto a coherent self while staying close to someone who … Continue reading
Edgar Morin and the Revolt Against Fragmentation
Edgar Morin (1921-2026) ranks among the last universal intellectuals that twentieth-century Europe produced. He worked as a sociologist, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, media theorist, filmmaker, and public commentator, and he refused to let any one of those titles claim him. For … Continue reading
‘Zen and the Art of Social Climbing’ (5-31-26)
01:00 Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19053902:00 My patented peer-reviewed biographies, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18146303:00 Highlights, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14374615:00 Allen Berger and the Second Stage of Recovery, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=18936416:00 The Moral Grammars of London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=19026317:00 Moral Grammars of American Elite Life: … Continue reading
Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter
Victor Wembanyama (b. 2004) stands seven feet four with an eight-foot wingspan. The instinct says park him under the rim and feed him the ball. San Antonio does the opposite. He spends much of every offensive possession out near the … Continue reading